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SIUM SISARUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sium sisarum mean? 

SIUM SISARUM (noun)
  The noun SIUM SISARUM has 1 sense:

1. an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous rootplay

  Familiarity information: SIUM SISARUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SIUM SISARUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Sium sisarum; skirret

Hypernyms ("Sium sisarum" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Holonyms ("Sium sisarum" is a member of...):

genus Sium; Sium (perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips)


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